Omaha, Niobrara & Black Hills Railroad v. Gerrard

In tbe .year 1866 Tbomas 0. Durant, tbe owner of certain lands near tbe town of Columbus, caused them to be surveyed and platted into lots and blocks, the plat of which was filed as tbe Capital addition to the town of Columbus. Tbe lands included in tbe survey and plat *588were the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter and the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of section twenty-four, in township seventeen north, range one west. In the year 1877 the defendants in error purchased a part of the land so platted, for the taxes due thereon. The part bo purchased consisted of the…